I’ve become disillusioned with Anthropic and their models. Sonnet 5 was fantastic. It’s slow and dumber now. Of course this is anecdotal but it’s true. I had one to fable to get anything decent and then my employer is paying Fable costs. Yikes.

For my personal projects I’m using Claude code in the terminal with Kimi and Deepseek models. I find the Chinese models cheaper, just as good if not better, and the real value add from Anthropic being the harness: Claude code.